I take them everywhere I go. The moment I put my car in park, until I’m back in the car, with doors locked, with it in drive, they all stand guard, by each picking a window, to watch out, while the biggest dog, hangs out the window, closest to me (while getting gas). I’m always aware of my surroundings (very safety conscientious), so last week, I scanned my surroundings, b4 proceeding to fill up tank. Only 1 truck, on other set of pumps, nobody standing around anywhere, except the guy filling up his truck…but for some reason, my dogs all fixated on the ice machine. I saw nobody. But as I went to walk to my driver door, my very large dog, stuck his top half out the window, to block me, from passing him. Within seconds, all hell broke lose, & my dogs all went nuts, with my pit bull trying to break her tether, to jump into driver seat. I took few steps back, & saw that some creep with bad intentions, had been hiding behind the ice machine, watching me. As he’d seen me finish pumping, he’d snuck out, around the pump from the other side, from where I was (blocking my view of him, sneaking up, near my Driver’s door). He hadn’t seen my dogs, from his perspective, but they knew he was there, & were waiting.
When I tried returning to my seat, my dogs blocked me, and pushed me back, where I’d just come from,just as the guy snuck around- soon as they knew he was gonna approach, the went nuts & terrified him, into slowly backing away. I absolutely cherish my dogs, & trust their judgement, on many things 🙂 They’ll be super friendly and affectionate, when meeting some people, but when others approach, I’ve seen them go on guard and scare them away in an instant- always when I’d had a gut instinct, that the person was trouble.

Wish I had skills like them🙂